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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 16, 1769
Page
3
Private contract for a freehold estate near Litchfield Staffordshire. Includes a good house gardens and about two acres of arable meadow and pasture. Full particulars to be advertised April 5 at No 45 Great Russell Street Joombuty.
London reports preparations for the Duke of Cumberland and related royals tours, while princes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz head to Echmond for summer. Dispatches to Constantinople, public dissent on grievances petitions, and society notes follow, including Paoli portraits, tradesmen, prices, and naval movements.
A section lists arrivals abroad and ships at Philadelphia Naples Smyrna Cadiz Rotterdam and Barbadoes with London origin and other ports. It records auctions and surrenders at Guildhall including merchants coal merchants and lightermen names and dates in June.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous named individuals and businesses in London with notes such as not to be found, fictitious, or unable to locate. It mentions merchants, printers, lawyers, brokers, and tradesmen with addresses across Bishopsgate, Lombard Street, Crutched Friars, and the City, indicating a search or notice for vanished or questionable listings. The item reads like an 18th or 19th century directory snippet.
Warsaw reports renewed Confederate oaths in Lithuania after Russian troops departed. Waynocie of Sandomir plans to send deputies to the king with proposals on present kingdom troubles. Paris notes Marshal Duke de Duras near death from apoplexy.
A compilation of notices and anecdotes from London with remarks on His Majesty’s birthday observance next Sunday and the following day, parliamentary oaths, naval appointments, political intrigue in India and Madagascar, smuggling and crime updates, and obituaries. It mentions Whitsun festivities at St George’s Fields, the Wilkes fair, naval assigns in Plymouth and Chatam, and various deaths and public notices.
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